Abandoned drag srtip east of Phoenix

[427TJ]

Now that would be cool if you guys could get access to take some pics with your cars! I'll bet that if you approach the property owners and show them photos of your cars that they might go for it. A photo of the Savoy on the old Beeline strip--that would be incredible. You could lay down some burnout marks on the old pavement and take photos of the marks with the weeds growing up through the old asphalt. (Bruce, you need to go along with them in the '66 and do some burnouts a-la your nearby burnout spot!)

When I spotted the old strip we were at about 2,500 feet turning base-to-final (right turn to the west) for runway 26 in the afternoon and I saw the old Beeline tower and for some reason I thought "that looks like a drag strip tower." As we banked over the top of the strip I had my head up against my forward side window looking almost straight down and I saw the 1/4 mile and it all came together. I forgot all about it until yesterday and then hit G-Earth and there it was. Beeline! I love historical stuff (I have pin-pointed all of the WWII 8th Air Force bases in England, many still clearly visible on G-Earth) and seeing Beeline still there was great.